Corrupting Youth

Peter Worley is the co-CEO and co-founder of the registered charity The Philosophy Foundation. He is also a Visiting Research Associate at King’s College London and an author of many books on doing philosophy in schools and questioning in classrooms.

Peter Worley’s works form an introduction of sorts to philosophical dialogue on both the theoretical and practical levels. While lucid and coherent, they are above all illuminating and enlightening, educating the reader in the questions that engage the practitioners of PwC/P4C and the dialogue created by questions and ponderings that opens up a whole world of imagination—answers in turn raising new queries. As per his wont, Worley’s writing is imbued with an inner fire that easily translates into action—an enthusiasm that verges on educational, pedagogical, and philosophical exaltation. On coming to the end of the reading experience, we are left with the conviction that there must be more—a higher level, material we have yet to be exposed to—and it is worth our while to wait and hope to reach even greater heights of our common humanity.

• PrefaceFacilitating PhiEPreparationPart One: Basic facilitation, getting PhiE goingPhilosophical process and contentThe essential core of PhiEBasic mechanism of PhiEThe PhiE step-by-stepThink, Speak, ListenThink: the stimulusThink and Speak: questions in PhiEOther key question-types in PhiESpeak: reasons Listen: ListeningOther key dispositions in PhiEPart Two: Expert facilitation, managing dialectic If-ing, anchoring and opening-upFurther Facilitation ConsiderationsThe Response Detector and The Third WayRight-to-replyInclusionary movesThe Emergent Question ApproachSilent DialogueThe Imaginary Disagreer: ‘silent dialogue’ in the classroomThe Hokey Kokey methodArguments and hidden premisesThe Mapper and PIES(S) QuestionsPart Three: Advanced Facilitation, taking things furtherThe Sibelius ModelWriting in PhiESelf-facilitationMetacognition and Extended Thinking in PhiEThinking Tools and Thinking WallMetacognition in Plato and PhiEDo you know that you know? Meno-cognition: learning attention to ourselvesSession-plansSession-plan 1: Epistemology through imagesMagritte’s PipeSession-plan 2: Ethics through a questionEthical ProtestingSession-plan 3: Aesthetics through performanceThe ConcertSession-plan 4: Metaphysics through textsStepping into rivers with Heraclitus, Cratylus and PlatoAppendix A-D: Tables of movesAppendix E: Pieces of music for The Concert session planBibliographyAbout the Author